The Weary Path

May your tomorrow hold as much laughter

As your today held dripping tears. 

May the light shine on your weary path

And banish all your fears

            May those who left you always return

            With the love they took away

            My love for you will forever burn

            May it guide your lonely way

Into the Black

Some nights there’s nothing left

No words, or joy, or pain

I want to sleep or hurt or laugh

And wonder if I’m sane

Does sanity allow you

To see the feeling of space

Or hear silence in fatigue

Or watch thoughts run on her face?

Time is not real tonight and

The load is still there on my back

But perhaps if I never turn around

It will fall off into the black

Silenced Truth

You flicker and waver like a flame

But if I’m burned you’re not to blame

You warned me to stay so far away

But without you I cannot find my way

You claim you’re the poison without a cure

I say that there’s no such thing as pure

We’re all poor sinners leaning on grace

You lie and say that you need the space

With me close you feel you’re better

Loosed are the chains – gone the fetters

But when you leave you truly fear

Your one chance at love will disappear

So you leave and wish on that second star

Hoping things are better when you’re far

Where you can’t hurt me, where you can’t be

A taint in the beauty of my being free

(If only you knew how much I long for you. If only you knew that I knew. If only you saw that your stains and sins don’t subtract from my love for you.)

The Lonely Road

Oh, it’s a long hard road that leads to redemption

It’s a long, long road to walk

It’s a long and lonely path and it’s getting hard to mention

All of the friends that I’ve lost

Chained

So much depends

On your predecessors

On knowing the people who made you

Knowing the people that stained

Your name

Before you breathed

Before You knew lust, hate, rage

Before you sinned

So much depends on the people

Who chain us to our past

Please

Please save me

From the fate that is coming

The feet that are running

The gunners are gunning

Please save me

Please fight for me

My hands are bound tight

Only you know I’m right

Before dawn’s feeble light

Please fight for me

Please set me free

From these men and their hate

Ride through the black gate

Before it’s too late

Please set me free